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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

For example, we use for communication at job a (internal) portal which use WebRTC for (video-)chat, notifications and so on.

Of course that I cannot use this Pale Moon to connect to that portal. I tested that several minutes ago.

another one who wants the leanest, meanest, lightweight software with the same ui as 10 years ago, yet demands it to be fully featured and 100% up there with all that bloatware they are opposing...it's time for that song again...

Last edited by ondoho; 10-05-2017 at 02:12 PM.
Reason: clarify what i'm refering to

^ another one who wants the leanest, meanest, lightweight software with the same ui as 10 years ago, yet demands it to be fully featured and 100% up there with all that bloatware they are opposing...it's time for that song again...

I actually don't have a lot on Palemoon, a standard adblocker is the only extension - and Palemoon complains about it - with or without the adblocker though I still have issues with youtube , other than that Palemoon works for me.

Well ive just tried palemoon for the first time today having seen this thread (and paid some attention to it :-) )

Palemoon appears much more performant in terms of speed in loading and browsing on all my machines, compared to firefox and icecat. Midori is same/close, but I have problems using Midori (for a different forum I suspect).

How secure (whatever that means) is Palemoon I wonder rhetorically speaking.

How secure (whatever that means) is Palemoon I wonder rhetorically speaking.

Most of the Pale Moon development effort consists of bugfixes and security patches, much much less adding features, refactoring or rewriting interfaces (these activities introduce bugs and security vulnerabilities). As such, I would expect Pale Moon to be more secure than Firefox. It's certainly less buggy, and that is the main reason I use it.

On the other hand, there are also fewer people using Pale Moon and finding security vulnerabilities compared to Firefox, but it is difficult to quantify the effects of this.

WebRTC is an API which is geared at enabling real-time in-browser communications without the need for extra plugins - think: "in-browser video chat without extra plugins". It holds a lot of potential for the future of online communication and is an exciting development.

A developer, Nathan Vander Wilt has discovered a way to make the WebRTC API divulge your machine's local IP address (or addresses; if you have more than one; for example if your laptop is plugged into ethernet but also has a wireless connection).

Is it something I need to worry about?

It depends.

On one hand, it might be handy for your tech support team to know what the internal IP address of your workstation is (especially if they're working remotely and need to help you by logging on to your computer). And I guess it's also pretty cool because until recently, all it was possible to do was detect your external IP address.

However it is just one more bit of information that used to be private which can now be obtained about you and your computer. So attackers who are trying to analyze you and your set up have another way of getting more information about you.

Most startlingly, this technique can not only be used to get your IP address, but can be turned into a sort of "nmap" like tool; to scan your entire internal network. This is particularly troubling for businesses and universities. It means that if you visit a malicious website, you could inadvertently leak details such as the internal network structure to attackers.

Disabling it.
It is possible to diable WebRTC in some web browsers. One day we'll have a guide about how to do this.....

Spent 2 hours today trying to null the 'newTab' program out of firefox source code.
It's very annoying and hard to rip out, eventually I've replaced it with blank xhtml page, but not before preprocessor.py broke the build twice.
Had to patch the preprocessor to remove the check, and find where it has hidden symlinks under 7 subdirectories.

Problem with this javascript program is that it loads every time new tab is opened, even if override is there to replace it with blank page.
Palemoon's got a proper override that actually overrides the page, and doesn't run any code if the option is set.
Firefox runs the newTab program every time anyway and then quickly covers it with blank, this is something normally found in malware, not a popular browser.

It's regression, used to work fine before they integrated ads into the page. Hopefully Palemoon will keep this functionality intact.

Spent 2 hours today trying to null the 'newTab' program out of firefox source code.
It's very annoying and hard to rip out, eventually I've replaced it with blank xhtml page, but not before preprocessor.py broke the build twice.
Had to patch the preprocessor to remove the check, and find where it has hidden symlinks under 7 subdirectories.

Problem with this javascript program is that it loads every time new tab is opened, even if override is there to replace it with blank page.
Palemoon's got a proper override that actually overrides the page, and doesn't run any code if the option is set.
Firefox runs the newTab program every time anyway and then quickly covers it with blank, this is something normally found in malware, not a popular browser.

It's regression, used to work fine before they integrated ads into the page. Hopefully Palemoon will keep this functionality intact.